Phil Ball: This blizzard of 2014, sissy stuff!

6:16 PM,
Jan. 10, 2014

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Phil Ball

The weather here in Muncie this first week of 2014 was indeed bad, but didn't compare with the Great Blizzard of 1978. Those readers who were alive and here in 1978, and whose brains have not deteriorated, can tell stories of wind, snow and cold that would bring frost into your fur-lined underwear.

How about 15 inches of snow propelled by 50-mph winds and temperatures of 15 below zero? My wife and I lived out in the country then, on Nebo Road, in a house set back on a 300-yard lane, which was blocked by 10-foot drifts. Visiting us at that time were my son and daughter-in-law and my first grandchild - a ...